Fear sets us up for that which we fear. This is Universal Law. How do we move past fear when what we see is a dangerous world full of those who want to destroy us?

We must be willing to deal with the war we are fighting in our own inner world before we will see a different external world. I know this may sound absurd when we are convinced that we will not survive if we don't strike back NOW. But the Truth is that it's the “strike back” that starts the very war we are trying to prevent.

Here's a suggestion: (only if you want to move towards the Inner peace that makes outer peace possible) get a pen & pad and write down your thoughts from this question: “When I think that my very survival is in danger right now, how do I feel? How do I react when I think and feel it? Do I know absolutely that my survival is being threatened?”

And then write all the scary thoughts that come rushing through the mind – pour it out on paper. Take the story apart and question it using Byron Katie's “Four Questions and The Turnarounds” (www.thework.com)

Fear-filled and angry reacting in the world before we clear our own inner battle only creates more external opposition, because the world is a mirror of our own internal belief system. What we see out there in the world is co-created by a fear-based collective mind. It is a war that must be internally dealt with if there is to be outer world peace. Thus say the ancient Universal Principles.

We, humans are warriors of consciousness, the most courageous kind; we stand up to the hardest battles imaginable – those in our own minds between Reality and the victim ego who believes its own fearful story about the world. The victim ego wants to hold us prisoner to our own painfully scary beliefs – which because we believe them, we feel and act them into being “real.”

We must first change our own mind before the world will change- because otherwise we manifest the world we now see.

This morning I was given this nugget during my daily practice about the philosopher' stone… and although I have wondered for years what it is exactly … in the moment it came I was not searching for it. It came, as is so often the way, as a “download.”

Why is this such a big deal?” – you may ask.”

Figuring out exactly what the “philosopher's stone” of Alchemy lore has occupied wise men/philosophers for centuries. There are complicated, arcane drawings, and paintings, and notations made on the subject by some of our greatest artistic creators. Men such as Galileo, Pythagoras, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Carl Jung, to name only a few of the many who are credited with great things. Some famous Alchemists thought, perhaps it was St Germaine (can't remember at this moment) who said even that the ‘philosopher's stone' is right in front of us, right beneath our very noses … and yet it still eludes the majority of us.

It is said that such information is to be held secret and that it can only be passed on when the student is ready … and yet I do not worry about this taboo, trusting that what comes to me is to be shared … I serve as a mere messenger – that is all. Besides I simply report what comes to me, and trust that those to whom the message is intended will be those who “get it.”

Besides I do not claim to know anything, and I certainly do not profess to be an Alchemist – although Alchemy IS happening in me (i.e. the base metal of old beliefs turning into the refined golden consciousness) as I am changed by Source flowing through me – I am a conduit, a channel who is willing to be used as a messenger for Reality.

But still the question: “What IS the philosopher's stone?”

This morning, standing aligned and stretching for Source, I heard the words enunciated syllable by syllable in my mind, as if for emphasis on the words … and realized that the words themselves really tell it all! “Phi-los-o-pher's St-one … “Oh,” I thought, the meaning is defined in the name itself! It is the stone of the philosopher! And images started tumbling in …

The “Philosopher's Stone,” it occurred to me, may be the outcome – the concrete form completed – of that which we consciously intended, and BELIEVED into being. It is the refined substance of that in us that we have been collaborating with Spirit to co-create. It is the finished product of a highly refined consciousness … it is the physical evidence of the inner work we've been doing, or perhaps truer to say, that has been done in us!

The Philosophers Stone is the three-dimensional, condensed energy our thoughts and beliefs take on when the Laws of Mentality/Co-Creation/Manifestation are applied.

When we fully align with the Universal Intelligence, and consciously set our intentions by CHOOSING who we want to be in right alignment with that Source, that which we desire to give our time, energy, and attention to in service to that Source, we become filled with the fiery energy of a Source that says nothing is impossible, and we get to experience through us that Co-creating Energy refining us and transforming us into THAT.

There are eight stages of refinement in the Alchemical process that defines the journey we each travel as we co-create with Source the “Philosopher's Stone.” I'll tell you about those next post!